Books and Information Products

For the Infopreneur Model, the digital download platform I plan to use is Gumroad. For clear, helpful online courses about creating and selling digital information products, I recommend the ClickBank University program.

If you need the services of freelance writers, book designers, illustrators, etc. you can look for freelancers or submit projects for bids at 99Designs.

CreateSpace is the self-publishing service for creating printed and Kindle books that you can sell on Amazon.com, your own website, or at your in-person lectures and workshops.

Although its focus is limited to a portfolio-type book, How to Self-Publish Your Own Quilt Catalog provides a good overview of the self-publishing process on CreateSpace and helpful worksheets for organizing a quilt book's content. Services for publishing photographic quilt portfolio books include Snapfish, Heritage Makers, and Blurb, which includes options for selling your book on the Blurb website as well as Amazon and the Apple iBooks store.

Patterns

The book you must have if you want to create and sell quilt and sewing patterns is: Publish Your Patterns. It’s a comprehensive guide to all of the steps for publishing, selling, and distributing patterns, and it includes extensive examples of materials.

The starting point for many quilt designs is the Electric Quilt software. Design individual blocks and complete quilts, experiment with colors, load images of actual fabrics, create a quilt from a scanned image, and more. Known among quilters simply as EQ, it has long been the software of choice for quilt pattern designers.

Another software package to consider for investment is Quilter's Creative Design. This software offers extensive tools for creating and printing quilting designs and pantographs (including text in a variety of fonts).

To create illustrations, manipulate photos, produce PDF booklets, and add security to your PDF documents you can do an online search for low-cost tools. But for professional-grade products, consider a subscription to the Adobe Creative Cloud Service, which offers the latest versions of the highly regarded Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, and other products.

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